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First Line: Rest on your battle-fields, ye brave
Last Line: We cannot mourn you now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Variant Title(s): A Dirge
Subject(s): Courage; Fame; Shame; Valor; Bravery; Reputation


REST on your battle-fields, ye brave!
Let the pines murmur o'er your grave,
Your dirge be in the moaning wave --
We call you back no more!

Oh! there was mourning when ye fell,
In your own vales a deep-toned knell,
An agony, a wild farewell --
But that hath long been o'er.

Rest with your still and solemn fame;
The hills keep record of your name,
And never can a touch of shame
Darken the buried brow.

But we on changeful days are cast,
When bright names from their place fall fast;
And ye that with your glory passed,
We cannot mourn you now.





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